Sentences with phrase «scare stories»

If you're about to have a baby, you may have heard all manner of scare stories about how your relationship will suffer.

The question «in whom do we trust», seems to be answered now by which scare stories we believe in.

So he obviously didn't think that would be a problem, so I don't know where the original scare stories came from.

Too many scare stories are simply too apocalyptic to be credible.

How many times have we read scare stories like this in the press?

One environmental scare story always seems to follow another.

If humans are actually responsible for less than half of recent warming, the whole scare story falls apart.

Needless to say, the teachers unions happily jumped all over the new scare story.

From its shock opening right out of a horror movie, this graphic novel sets the scene for an old - fashioned scare story.

Sorry, but as with the other natural disasters, there's nothing here to validate the environmentalists scare stories, either.

We aren't the first generation to care — or to be raised on eco scare stories.

If you are still reading this blog, Dr Fred, you might like to know that Hasnain was still writing scare stories in the Indian press about this as recently as January 2006: «At present the rivers have shown 3 - 4 % surplus water due to a 10 % increase in the melting of the glacier of the western Himalayas, and a 30 % increase in the eastern Himalayan glaciers.

The flaws in the alarmist position Lindzen exposed in 1992 remain the same today: the global warming scare story depends on hopelessly inadequate computer models which place too much emphasis on man - made CO2 and which therefore produce a «disturbingly arbitrary» picture of the state of climate.

Instead of terrifying the public with scare stories about climate change caused by CO2 emissions, why aren't governments actually doing something about it by replacing fossil - fuel power stations with nuclear ones (and crushing any protests which try to stop them)?

It should also be said that Ancel Keys was behind the original scare story on saturated fat; the seven countries paper which showed a big correlation between saturated fat intake and heart disease.

We've heard scare stories about hospitals not being able to cope if a Paris - style attack happened during the strike, and Jeremy Hunt has done his best to portray the strike leaders as politically motivated rather than actually caring about patient safety.

But so what, he clearly holds the reins anyway... And his record to date has actually been pretty good: The company has stated its commitment to international governance standards, related party deals have been cleaned up / eliminated since the IPO, KPMG was appointed as auditor, and lots of media scare stories (buying US poultry companies, deposits in related party banks, getting into cattle raising, etc.) have proved to be untrue.

Last night, after the Conservatives overturned a 5,000 Labour majority to win the Norwich seat by 7,348 votes, Labour MPs gave warning that, unless the party did more than peddle scare stories about possible Tory spending cuts, it faced a wipeout at the next election.

About Blog «Global warming» could be the most costly scare story in the history of man.

Rial rebuked climate claims like Corell's by stating «scare stories don't help.»

Wetherspoon founder Tim Martin says in a press release accompanying the launch: «Mr Cameron and Mr Osborne have tried to fool the public using scare stories from cronies or subordinates.

The same old scare stories simply don't wash.»

If the media are drawn to scare stories such as MMR, is it not fair to ask if this phenomenon extends to the media's coverage of the climate?

The actual number, however, is still proportionately small, despite scare stories in the press.

Similar scare stories appeared on the websites of Fox News and USA Today.

The media created that perception - immigration was never a big issue on the doorstep until scare stories started to appear in the Mail, Express, etc..

Privatisations always throw up lurid scare stories.

This is not the first time myself and my retailer colleagues have been fed a constant stream of tobacco industry scare stories, from front groups and via the trade media, in which doomsday was predicted for small retailers at any measure to cut young people smoking.

Tabloids railed against the party's rise and its Nazi origins, without ever pondering the fact that their daily dose of anti-immigrant scare stories had contributed significantly to its growth.

In a series of high production value TV adverts, senior Republicans highlighted scare stories from the NHS, angering British officials and healthcare staff.

Tory scare stories of a Labour - SNP deal will have aggravated jitters among undecided voters, but that kind of tactic only works when it plays to underlying weakness in the opposition offer.

It's now the career route of choice: they can use that platform to attack this Government and make their name, lining up alongside former special advisers, MPs and councillors to argue for more spending, or to spread scare stories that are often exaggerated or wholly untrue.

Even police officers and members of the judiciary declare as facts what are actually Daily Mail scare stories.

We're seeing all manner of scare stories put about by the vested interests who stand to lose from the growth of indexing, most of which are frankly laughable.

In the necessary process of countering the worst scare stories with empirically based balance (i.e. a broader process of evidence based reasoning than the common understanding of science may imply).

In my opinion, this field is currently making a living off scare stories funded by Government Grants.